Steve69

unless, Nikon decides to etch or engrave password warning in capitals on the side of the lens. but then again, assuming thief knows and can read English...

Nikon does not say the password would be mandatory. Anyone who do not want to use it may probably skip it. But for those who might feel this would give them advantage, password option could come...

as i recall punch cards had storage capacity of less than 128bytes which means that you would need almost 8.5 million cards to store equivalent of 1 GB of data. this makes 536,870,912 cards to...

based on your post this product might not be dedicated to educated customer like yourself. they won't cry if you choose not to get one.

Finally P300-like model with manual focus.

Great lookig lens. But someone could say using KR terminology, "It's the perfect model for gear masturbators".

Just pre-ordered one from Amazon for my D700. They say it should ship on June 29th. Meanwhile I am looking now how eBay prices are going down on previous versions of this walk-around lens...